“Type­cast 2 un­fold­ed in the space — and the ten­sion — be­tween these po­ten­tial mean­ings of the ma­te­ri­al. As the group re­solved into its core mem­ber­ship and found its way of work­ing, we ex­plored the con­nec­tions be­tween these two poles of the clay-work pro­cess and the dy­nam­ics of re­cov­ery. Set­tling into the four-day res­i­den­cy phase, we re­al­ised that the three cli­ents in re­cov­ery who were stay­ing with the proj­ect — Angie, Dave and Steve — all had some kind of back­ground in craft — or con­struc­tion-based in­dus­tries in the re­gion; Angie in silk-screen pro­duc­tion, Dave as a build­er, Steve in ma­chine cast­ing and mould­ing. These per­son­al his­to­ries seem to have pro­vid­ed bridg­es into the Type­cast ex­pe­ri­ence and its em­pha­sis on in­ves­ti­gat­ing ma­te­ri­als, pro­cess­es, and pro­duc­tion meth­ods. They cer­tain­ly in­formed how we shaped the res­i­den­cy ses­sions around a model of work­shop pro­duc­tion, with re­search and de­vel­op­ment ses­sions on ma­te­ri­als and pro­cess­es, feed­ing into the mak­ing of com­po­nents, which were then as­sem­bled into con­struc­tions on our im­pro­vised pro­duc­tion line.”

“Type­cast 2 un­fold­ed in the space — and the ten­sion — be­tween these po­ten­tial mean­ings of the ma­te­ri­al. As the group re­solved into its core mem­ber­ship and found its way of work­ing, we ex­plored the con­nec­tions be­tween these two poles of the clay-work pro­cess and the dy­nam­ics of re­cov­ery. Set­tling into the four-day res­i­den­cy phase, we re­al­ised that the three cli­ents in re­cov­ery who were stay­ing with the proj­ect — Angie, Dave and Steve — all had some kind of back­ground in craft — or con­struc­tion-based in­dus­tries in the re­gion; Angie in silk-screen pro­duc­tion, Dave as a build­er, Steve in ma­chine cast­ing and mould­ing. These per­son­al his­to­ries seem to have pro­vid­ed bridg­es into the Type­cast ex­pe­ri­ence and its em­pha­sis on in­ves­ti­gat­ing ma­te­ri­als, pro­cess­es, and pro­duc­tion meth­ods. They cer­tain­ly in­formed how we shaped the res­i­den­cy ses­sions around a model of work­shop pro­duc­tion, with re­search and de­vel­op­ment ses­sions on ma­te­ri­als and pro­cess­es, feed­ing into the mak­ing of com­po­nents, which were then as­sem­bled into con­struc­tions on our im­pro­vised pro­duc­tion line.”